Inserts the results of an autocompletion in the command line
echo ESC *
you will understand quickly.
By the way, few reminders about ESC :
- Hold ESC does the same thing as tab tab
- 'ESC .' inserts the last argument of last command (can be done many times in order to get the last argument of all previous commands)
$ echo <ESC><*>
gives
$ echo aaa aab aba abb baa bab bba bbb
$ echo a<ESC><*>
gives
$ echo aaa aab aba abb
but also :
$ <ESC><*>
gives
$ \: \! . .. ... .... \[ \[\[ ]] \{ } 4xml 4xpath 4xslt 4xupdate 822-date 915resolution _a2dismod _a2dissite _a2enmod _a2ensite a2p a2ping aa-audit aa-autodep aa-complain aa-enforce aa-genprof aa-logprof aa-status aa-unconfined accept accessdb aconnect acpi acpi_available acpid acpi_fakekey acpi_listen acroread acyclic
(I stopped but it's basically the list of all the commands).
What do you think?
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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<ESC> *returns all the commands in a row.<ALT><NUM><.>grabs the 'NUM' argument from the previous command and puts it in the current command. 'NUM'=0 is the command eg. #ls a b c --some output-- # #that is equal to 'ls b'ls a b c--some output<ALT><0><.> <ALT><2><.># is equal to 'ls b' you have to holt the 'Alt' key the whole time.for i in *; do somethingWith $i; doneecho *.ogg<ESC>* # List *.ogg filesecho *w*<ESC>* # List filenames containing 'w'bash --versionGNU bash, version 3.2.33(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)echo *<TAB>When I'm forced to use bash, I try and make it act like zsh so I can keep my sanity*. So far I've failed :) *says the long time zsh user. But seriously, give it a shot...echo * esc-*any_other_command esc-*echo *.c esc-*Does not work :any_other_command *.c esc-*I just can't understand.Alt *Does the same; I find it easier to type.